Click any of the letters above to explore our ever-growing list of microwave-related acronyms. Here you'll find hundreds of microwave acronyms spelled out and explained, and in some cases linked to other Microwaves101 pages for further reading. How's our driving? Drop us a line if anything is missing, confusing or incorrect.

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Here's a page on Greek letter usage in microwave engineering.

Note to users: these acronyms are ones that we see commonly used in microwave engineering, including integrated circuit processing. We don't want this list to become too big to handle, so we will leave out all of the obnoxious government acronyms you might encounter, like HERF (hazards of electromagnetic radiation to fuels). The U.S. Government has many web sites that will help you decode their verbal junkyard. The Association of Old Crows (an electronic warfare organization with a tres cool name) has an extensive list of military acronyms for example.